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If you do a quick search for "sales tips", you'll get more than 1.5 million results. Whoa. It's safe to say there's a wealth of information out there for how to get better at sales, whether you're in sales or not.

CRMs can be amazing tools for salespeople and marketers. But they can also be a huge pain.

It’s all about how you use them.

We see a ton of companies who use their CRMs only to store customer information, and many don’t even do that well. Your CRM shouldn’t be a big messy database that sucks up all your time and gives you an anxiety attack every time you open it.

As marketers, our lives get easier when we know more about our ideal customers. The more we know about them, the easier it is to communicate with them, offer value to them, and sell our products and services to them.Buyer personas are an awesome tool for ensuring that we have all the information we need, and organizing that information in a way that's easy to understand. Essentially, buyer...

By definition, rapport is “a relationship marked by mutual understanding and trust.” Establishing those kinds of relationships is what sales people have been trying to do for years, with varying degrees of success. But in this digital, global world, we can’t rely on the same rapport-building tactics that worked for them just a couple...

Are you sending videos to your prospects? Not those sexy videos that your marketing team or ad agency put together, we’re talking about raw, real videos of you talking on camera.

If you are, you’re way ahead of most salespeople out there – and your commissions probably reflect that. If you’re not, don’t worry. There’s still time to add video to your sales process, but not much. Video isn’t the...

When we’re talking about marketing, things can get kind of buzz-wordy. Marketing collateral. Landing pages. Audience personas. Ever feel like you need a guide to walk you through these things?

Introducing the Ultimate Guide to Marketing Collateral. In this article, we take the most common types of marketing collateral and define them - what they are and when to use them. We'll also show you...

Hiring a marketing agency can seem like a dooming task that involves a lot of red tape and scary contracts. In reality, it’s just meeting with a few cool people (our judgement may be biased) over a cup of coffee and talking about your business’ successes and challenges.

Every business wants to be the best they can, but sometimes there’s just one piece missing. Over our cup of joe, we’ll...